What does demon possession mean to you?

[Dan From Smithville]

https://www.quora.com/Has-there-been-any-scientific-proof-for-the-presence-of-telepathy

Obviously it's different for me with my abilities being known

Can you read my thoughts right now?

 

[The Reverend Bob]

Ah, 'conversion disorder', 'hysteria' in the good ol' days─ or the possibility of it.

It's not clear to me that labeling certain fad or fashionable social behaviors, sayings, slogans, songs, as 'memes' gives us any new handle on them should they become a problem. What am I missing?

Yes, conversion disorder is a symptom.

 

[The Reverend Bob]

Yes, but

Can you read my thoughts right now?

Yes, but I am not that type of guy. At least not on a first date

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Yes, but

Yes, but I am not that type of guy. At least not on a first date

You must be reading the mind of my next door neighbor. She's elderly, but spry and kinky. Or so the milkman told me.

 

[The Reverend Bob]

Ah, 'conversion disorder', 'hysteria' in the good ol' days─ or the possibility of it.

It's not clear to me that labeling certain fad or fashionable social behaviors, sayings, slogans, songs, as 'memes' gives us any new handle on them should they become a problem. What am I missing?

Would you rather we go back to calling memes and memeplexes - demons or spirits like in the old days?

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Except it's a fact that demonic possession does not exist. It exist as a belief because at one point in time we had a very limited understanding of human psychology, mental health, and we knew absolutely nothing of neurochemistry or how the different regions of the brain operate us. Having a grand mal seizure is frightening for all involved, even with a physiological explanation. But go back thousands of years, and you see someone suddenly fall over and begin to violently convulse, and when they come to they remember nothing of it, spiritual forces seem a plausible explanation when there is no other possible explanation available.

I have been searching the scientific literature and not one paper to be found that is proclaiming verification of the existence of telepathy, psychics, demons, possession, esp, Bigfoot, fairies, Dracula, Nessie, telekinesis, astral projection, clairvoyance, remote whatever or honesty and compassion in Donald Trump.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Just because you are so sure of yourself; that doesn't make it a fact.

You seem sure of yourself.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Who got possessed by a demon

I was around a Demon a while back. Those things are really fast.

 

[The Reverend Bob]

I have been searching the scientific literature and not one paper to be found that is proclaiming verification of the existence of telepathy, psychics, demons, possession, esp, Bigfoot, fairies, Dracula, Nessie, telekinesis, astral projection, clairvoyance, remote whatever or honesty and compassion in Donald Trump.

Demons are non-beings. How does one prove the existence of non-beings?

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Traces of demons?

You know. Ectoplasm, cats, and pancakes.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Demons are non-beings. How does one prove the existence of non-beings?

They exist. I sat in it. Fired it up. Love that new car smell.

 

[The Reverend Bob]

You know. Ectoplasm, cats, and pancakes.

Trump rallies!

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Demons are non-beings. How does one prove the existence of non-beings?

Oh. I see. That is the problem. Non-beings have non-evidence. If we ever figure out what any evidence that doesn't support something else, must be evidence of demons that are non-beings. It is so simple.

It is not something that has any evidence to support and show others. It is a belief. People can claim it, believe it if they want to waste the time, but there is no reason for anyone else to believe it. Maybe all of the so called demon possessions that aren't attributable to mental illness are the result of Maude Johnson a human housewife from somewhere in the multiverse. It is as good an explanation as jumping to demons and I have all the same evidence.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Trump rallies!

You are onto something. That might be the only evidence for demon possession that is observable and predictable.

 

[The Reverend Bob]

Oh. I see. That is the problem. Non-beings have non-evidence. If we ever figure out what any evidence that doesn't support something else, must be evidence of demons that are non-beings. It is so simple.

It is not something that has any evidence to support and show others. It is a belief. People can claim it, believe it if they want to waste the time, but there is no reason for anyone else to believe it. Maybe all of the so called demon possessions that aren't attributable to mental illness are the result of Maude Johnson a human housewife from somewhere in the multiverse. It is as good an explanation as jumping to demons and I have all the same evidence.

So there is no evidence of memes or memeplexes? Dawkins is wrong?

 

[Dan From Smithville]

So there is no evidence of memes or memeplexes? Dawkins is wrong?

Are they demons? Isn't a meme just an idea?

 

[Dan From Smithville]

So there is no evidence of memes or memeplexes? Dawkins is wrong?

Wouldn't the idea of a demon be a meme? If it is a meme, does that make it an independent entity? Aren't demons supposed to be independent entities?

 

[The Reverend Bob]

Are they demons? Isn't a meme just an idea?

Memetics is a theory. But I think it's interesting that memes and memeplexes behave in the same way that the ancients believe that demons behaved

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Memetics is a theory. But I think it's interesting that memes and memeplexes behave in the same way that the ancients believe that demons behaved

In what respect do you see memes as having similar behavior to ancient descriptions of demons?

 

[The Reverend Bob]

Wouldn't the idea of a demon be a meme? If it is a meme, does that make it an independent entity? Aren't demons supposed to be independent entities?

In order for a demon to be an entity is for it to have a host. Augustine thought they had no being of their own and owed any being they had on living parasitically off a human host